Re: [Bedbug Support Message] Re: question on packing up books
Leigh, I meant to say ..maybe Bankers boxes are NOT corrugated..which would lessen the areas for harborage.....if you go online , onto bedbugger, there are bedbug photos from an entomologist who kept them in clear glass jars, and inside the jars he placed corrugated cardboard....a picture is worth a thousand words...the bugs find ideal harborage with the cardboard. I met a bedbug sufferer who visited with the entomologist at his office in NYC...she said that when she looked at the jar, with the cardboard inside, she saw NO bugs...but , the minute the entomologist placed his warm hands onto the outside of the jar, the bugs came out by the hundreds....they sensed the human hand and they were hiding within the cardboard....I never forgot her telling me this. Way back when I remember ordering Chinese food and the delivery person came with the food in a
cardboard box, my guest told me to immediately get rid of the box because the cardboard from restaurants is notorious for hiding cockroaches and their eggs......lesson learned, I never let any cardboard box from a food establishment come into my home.......just my opinion..better safe than sorry, esp. when it comes to bedbugs......deb
--- On Fri, 7/10/09, esuelin31 <esuelin31@...> wrote:
From: esuelin31 <esuelin31@...> Subject: [Bedbug Support Message] Re: question on packing up books To: bedbugger@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, July 10, 2009, 9:24 AM
--- In bedbugger@yahoogrou ps.com, "Leigh Manndel" <manndel@... > wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm a new member here, who's recently discovered I'm the horrified
host of
> those darn bedbugs, I
> think I'm still in shock.
>
> anyhow, I have hundreds of gorgous books, that I would never part
with. I
> went thru the archives for the
> group, and discovered that the worst thing to do was store them in
cardboard
> boxes--is this really
> true??
> My plan was to put my books in Banker's boxes, and then enclose them
in
> plastic bags. I just looked
> at a bankers' box, and actually, they don't have those enclosed wavy
areas,
> just straight cardboard.
> But is the best box a plastic or Tupperware kind? Wanted to make
sure, as
> that will cost considerably more....
>
> Also, want to get a steamer for my clothes, but the only one I can
afford is
> the Salton Sea brand one
> for steaming clothes, at Walmart. I live in Vancouver, BC, Canada,
and
> things are a lot more expensive here. That model, for steaming
clothes, is
> $90, and they have an even smaller one for $30. Anyone have any idea
if
> this (the $90 one) would
> be sufficient for clothes and similar stuff, and do you need an
"industrial"
> strength steamer?
>
> Would much appreciate any replies, as hopefully, someone is taking me
> box-shopping" later
> today :-))
>
> Thanks so much,
> Leigh
>
Hi everyone, I'm a new member here, who's recently discovered I'm the horrified host of
those darn bedbugs, I think I'm still in shock. anyhow, I have hundreds...
You'll find disagreement here about cardboard boxes. We used both plastic & cardboard, but any cardboard we used was well sealed. Every corrugated edge was...
If you plan to bag up the boxes for a 18 months or so, I don't see a problem with it. I think the idea is that the bugs can hide more easily in cardboard,...
Leigh...I am not familiar with a Bankers Box, but cardboard , by nature, makes an ideal harborage for bugs of all kinds...maybe Bankers boxes are corrugated??...
Leigh, I meant to say ..maybe Bankers boxes are NOT corrugated..which would lessen the areas for harborage.....if you go online , onto bedbugger, there are...
Leigh, I read on BedbugGuru.com <http://www.bedbugguru.com/> that bed bugs can hide in very small cracks and holes. Cardboard boxes will certainly provide...
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